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Troy Southgate’s TWENTIETH-CENTURY ROMANTIC: IMPRESSIONS OF OWEN BARFIELD is now in stock. The book is 160 pages in length and costs just 24 EUROS with free postage to anywhere in the world. The PayPal address is blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk and you can find more details below. Cover: Francisco Albanese Pastene
THE brilliant writer and philosopher, Owen Barfield (1898–1997), is best known for having founded The Inklings, a literary discussion group at Oxford University which included among its members the famous authors C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) and J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973). Despite the religious barriers that often separated the three men, they became very close friends and Barfield’s writings were an enormous influence on his fellow wordsmiths. Lewis even dedicated his 1949 work, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, to Barfield’s daughter, Lucy, whilst Tolkien admitted that his friend had changed his view of semantics to such an extraordinary degree that it had helped shape the narrative of The Hobbit (1937). In this new volume, containing many photographs and illustrations, the author sets out to examine Barfield’s important contribution to the Anthroposophical movement by way of his philosophy, his fantasy, his science fiction, his work on language and his valuable friendships and collaborations. Rather than appear in the guise of a standard biography, the text functions as a collection of 25 essays on Barfield’s scintillating ideas and will provide a well-rounded insight into the man and his work.
